Literary success: After 10 years in the community, Manhattan Beach’s {pages} has become a book world destination
{pages} employee Megan Johnson sells a copy of Colum McCann’s “Apeirogon” to customer Lilliana Lettieri. Photo by J.P. Cordero In the spring of 2010, Pam Jenning, then an English teacher at Mira Costa High School, received a call from the mother of one of her students. The mother was friends with Linda McLoughlin Figel, one of the owners of the recently opened {pages} a bookstore in downtown Manhattan Beach. McLoughlin Figel and her partners were looking for a way to get the community involved in their new venture, and wanted to know if Jenning had any suggestions. In her decades at Costa, Jenning specialized in American literature. She grew rhapsodic when the the curriculum turned to the Modernists of the early 20th century, like Hemingway, Fitzgerald and, especially, Faulkner. (Full disclosure: Jenning was this reporter’s junior year English teacher; her classroom was festooned with Faulknerania, including a poster of a conference devoted to the geography of Yoknapatawpha County, the fictional Mississippi census unit where Faulkner’s works take place.) Jenning proposed a book club-cum-seminar. She would do presentations on major writers and topics in American literature, select…
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